Q&A · 25:26-26:02

Why three triple turrets beat a two-turret layout

A Soviet Project 24 study shows that two main turrets were imaginable, while two forward and one aft remain more plausible for this Royal Navy scenario.

Question

Would a capital ship with only two twin or triple main turrets have been a plausible solution?

Short answer

Such concepts existed. Three triple turrets, with two forward and one aft, are more plausible for the Royal Navy design being discussed.

Notes

A viewer asks whether any capital ship of the broad period used only two twin or triple main turrets and cites an unbuilt Soviet Project 24 design study. The earlier two-turret arrangement came from the game's design limits. A historical reconstruction of the British triple-turret case would more plausibly use three main mountings, with two forward and one aft. The answer separates a layout permitted by the simulation from the arrangement a navy would probably select.